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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)
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Information
- Year
- 1960
- Runtime
- 89 min.
- Director
- Karel Reisz
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Rating *
- 7.7
- Votes *
- 4,943
- Checks
- 2,121
- Favs
- 149
- Dislikes
- 13
- Favs/checks
- 7.0% (1:14)
- Favs/dislikes
- 11:1
Top comments
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Kenneth McMahon
A classic look at working class British life in the 60s. Bloody loved it. 9 years 7 months ago -
jmars
I'm generally not much of a fan of the working-man slice-of-life British films of the 60s and 70s but somehow this one stuck with me. Maybe it's Albert Finney's commanding performance, or maybe it's the struggle of his character. He rails against whatever is right in front of him - his parents, his boss, the nasty lady across the street, even a billboard. He doesn't stand for anything, only against everything. "Whatever people say I am, that's what I'm not," he says into a mirror. But by not having a cause or a particular enemy, his struggle is so vague as to be universal. 2 years 5 months ago -
Siskoid
Something I might call British Neo-Realism, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning is a film I respect more than like. It's the era of the "angry young man" narrative, and as a Baby Buster (I don't like being lumped in with GenXers, naturally), I totally get the want and need to question authority. But then, what are you doing instead? Young Albert Finney is excellent as Arthur, our chief angry young man, but Arthur rejects societal norms in the most obnoxious and useless way. He parties, he fools around, he plays dangerous pranks... And I get that this is a portrait of a generation, but it lacked one of two things to make me want to get invested in it. Either I need to understand the system he's rebelling against - he just seems to be doing it because he's a jerk, frankly - either the protagonist makes a point or rights a wrong (even if just by example) - but being a sociopath is not the same as questioning or rebelling against the status quo. As a portrait of disgruntled youth and blue collar Britain, it's fine. Well written, well shot, well acted. I just couldn't get a handle on why I should care. 3 years 9 months ago
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This movie ranks #14 in BAFTA Award - Best British Film
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This movie ranks #14 in BFI's Top 100 British Films
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This movie ranks #22 in Time Out's The 100 Best British Films
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This movie ranks #31 in TSPDT's 1,000 Greatest Films: 1001-2500
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This movie ranks #64 in Halliwell's Top 1000: The Ultimate Movie Countdown
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This movie ranks #240 in Mark Cousins's The Story of Film: An Odyssey
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This movie ranks #358 in 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die
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This movie ranks #746 in The New York Times's Book of Movies
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This movie ranks #779 in The Guardian's 1000 Films to See Before You Die
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